AnnabelleChauncyOAM

Speaker Profile

Annabelle Chauncy OAM is the Founding Director of School For Life Foundation (SFL). SFL is a grassroots organisation that has built and runs 2 schools in rural Uganda (with a third school in development). The schools provide high quality education to more than 560 primary students (including children with disabilities), vocational training to more than 100 adults, clean drinking water, electricity, community outreach and medical treatment to their surrounding communities. SFL employs more than 150 people across three continents.

Annabelle was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia in January 2015. She has raised over $5 million in five years and her role includes management in Australia and Uganda of strategy, governance, human resources, fundraising and sponsorship, marketing, media and events. In 2012, Annabelle was named in Australian Financial Review & Westpac's Top 100 Women of Influence 2012.

She was a finalist in 2 categories of the NSW Telstra Businesswomen's Awards 2013 for Business Innovation and Young Businesswoman. Annabelle was the winner of the Australian Women's Weekly and Qantas' Woman of the Future award in 2014. Annabelle was named NSW Young Woman of the Year in 2015. In 2016, she was named an Impact 25 winner (top 25 most influential people in Australia’s social sector) by Pro Bono Australia, and in 2017 named a finalist in the Instyle magazine and Audi’s Women of Style awards.

Client Comments for Annabelle Chauncy

Annabelle was friendly, accommodating and professional. She was great to work with and delivered a presentation that resonated with our audience. She set the tone for the rest of our conference and energy, passion and enthusiasm was inspiring.

Client Comments

Client Comments

Annabelle gave an enthusiastic, well-rehearsed and insightful presentation from herperspective as the founding director of the School For Life foundation. Annabelle broughtfantastic warmth and integrity to our program, deftly balancing humour, personal experienceand education throughout her plenary. As event organisers, we were thrilled at the responseto Annabelle, with our delegates providing plenty of positive feedback. Furthermore,Annabelle was happy to personally interact with our delegates after our presentation, whichhelped further validate and consolidate the ideas and insights she provided.Finally, Annabelle and the team at Saxton were a pleasure to work with leading up toand during our conference, as they were readily contactable, responsive and friendly. Wemore than happily recommend Annabelle as a presenter for any future event.Australian Medical Students' Association

Annabelle was friendly, accommodating and professional. She was great to work with and delivered a presentation that resonated with our audience. She set the tone for the rest of our conference and energy, passion and enthusiasm was inspiring.Department of Education and Training